Police release images in guard beating

Updated 1:17 pm, Thursday, November 8, 2012

Investigators released video taken early Nov. 1 that showsa driver in an F-150 pickup running over a guard in the parking lot of Taqueria Mexico in the 7100 block of Somerset Road.
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Police are asking the public for help identifying two men who ran over and severely beat a 68-year-old security guard at a Southwest Side taquería before rummaging through his pockets.

Investigators today released images from a video taken early Nov. 1 that shows an F-150 pickup running over the guard in the parking lot of Taqueria Mexico in the 7100 block of Somerset Road.

One of the men then got out of the truck and hit him in the face with an unknown object before going through the guard's pockets.

A group of partygoers found the guard about 1:15 a.m. inside his parked truck and called police.

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Police on Thursday released images that captured the attack of a 68-year-old security guard at Taqueria Mexico in the 7100 block of Somerset Road about 1:15 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2012.

Police on Thursday released images that captured the attack of a 68-year-old security guard at Taqueria Mexico in the 7100 block of Somerset Road about 1:15 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2012.

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As he held a bloodied washcloth to his face, the victim told officers in Spanish that he'd been shot, though he couldn't speak further because of his injuries.

Police said the guard, 68, didn't appear to have been shot, but he was left with a broken jaw, broken teeth, severe cuts to his head and face and a fractured middle finger.

The F-150 is believed to be dark and had a toolbox in its bed, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 210-224-7867.